(AutoIt) Iterate Through Matching ZIP Entries Using EntryMatching and ZipEntry.GetNextMatch

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This example demonstrates how to iterate through ZIP entries matching a wildcard pattern using:

• Zip.EntryMatching to obtain the first matching entry
• ZipEntry.GetNextMatch to advance to subsequent matching entries

The wildcard character * matches zero or more characters. Matching is performed against the full stored ZIP entry path.

The example searches for all entries beneath the docs/ directory.

Suppose the ZIP archive contains:

docs/
docs/readme.txt
docs/manual.pdf
docs/sub1/notes.txt
images/logo.png
hello.txt

The wildcard pattern:

docs/*

Matches:

docs/
docs/readme.txt
docs/manual.pdf
docs/sub1/notes.txt

Note that ZIP archives may optionally contain separate directory entries. Therefore, the first matching entry may be the directory entry docs/ rather than a file entry.

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Local $bSuccess = False

$oZip = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Zip")

; Open an existing ZIP archive.
$bSuccess = $oZip.OpenZip("c:/temp/sample.zip")
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oZip.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; ------------------------------------------------------------
; Find the first ZIP entry matching the wildcard pattern:
; 
;     docs/*
; 
; Matching is performed against the full stored ZIP path.
; 
$oEntry = ObjCreate("Chilkat.ZipEntry")

$bSuccess = $oZip.EntryMatching("docs/*",$oEntry)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite("No matching entries found." & @CRLF)
    $oZip.CloseZip 
    Exit
EndIf

; ------------------------------------------------------------
; Iterate through all matching entries.
; 
; GetNextMatch updates the same ZipEntry object so that
; it represents the next matching entry.
; 
While ($bSuccess = True)
    If ($oEntry.IsDirectory = True) Then
        ConsoleWrite("[Directory] " & $oEntry.FileName & @CRLF)
    Else
        ConsoleWrite("[File] " & $oEntry.FileName & @CRLF)
    EndIf

    ; Advance to the next matching entry.
    $bSuccess = $oEntry.GetNextMatch("docs/*")
Wend

$oZip.CloseZip 

ConsoleWrite("Done." & @CRLF)